I am trying to be extra Not Patriotic today out of disrespect to the Queen so right now I am attempting an American grilled cheese sandwich instead of a British toastie

I'm gonna be ready this time.

I'm at an event that's started with a minute's silence for the Dead Queen. Very strange to watch 80 people taking sixty seconds to be quiet. What are they all thinking?

I spent them thinking about that Prince Andrew interview.

@wynnibee !!! You are!! KILLING ME!

*gets BOOPED*

"The other cat has stolen Her Majesty's lap" a story in three parts.

Cas is unconcerned. Treason!

"Treason!"

Fantastic Four #94 (January 1970)

Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Joe Sinnott

Marvel Comics

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Sparkly hat day

So, what with today being the day some 70 odd year old bloke gets given a shiny hat and parks his arse on a fancy chair, I thought I'd offer up this commentary.

Now, obviously there's going to be plenty of republicans and other antimonarchists ranting and raving about the outdated idea of monarchy and or the expense and wastefulness when people are starving and struggling to pay their bills etc. But, just remember, this event (and the royal funeral before it) is being organised and stage managed by a corrupt, unelected, elitist and increasingly unpopular govt. who have been pushing an ever increasingly fascistic and discriminatiory nationalist political agenda which is responsible for these problems and who are doing nothing to solve them (wherein they're prepared to admit said problems actually exist).

Now, I'm not a fan of the monarchy per se but it sort of works and our "democracy" as it stands is hardly a decent alternative so why should it be disposed of? I'm not going to say people aren't justified in their anger, just direct that anger and hate at the people who are actually responsible.

I mean who's more responsible for a kid suffering from malnutrition in a modern western industrialised nation? Some septegenarian who's never worked a day in his life? Or a group of politicians who campaigned, supported and then enacted the political policies that mean that child's family can't afford to buy food? Who deny that such poverty exists? And or there's something THEY COULD DO to remedy it?

BETRAYAL

3/10 very poor funeral. Overlong and under-memeable.

Rumours abound! Do we need to ready the crabs?

Probably not, but I can tell you what I personally am hoping for, to whit:

Charles survives this. It's quite important to the crumbling of the royal brand that he lives as long as possible so we have a dramatically unpopular king for as long as possible, because this is the age of "I get to vote for who wins the jungle, WHAT DO YOU MEAN I can't vote for a prettier king"

Steven Colbert has just announced that William has been having an enthusiastic affair with some Marchioness of somewhere or other. I want this to be true.

There will be some royal announcement of something today. It will probably be about Charles' cancer prognosis, but I hope - God do I hope - that it will actually be the announcement that Kate is divorcing William for infidelity, because I cannot stress enough that the best case scenario here is that the only popular one left is massively tarnished by grubby scandal. Even if Charles does then die, the replacement is his gross grubby son who has taken after him in the one way that made Charles himself hated by the public. I want to see the headline "Like father like son: Diana would be appalled" across the front page of the Daily Mail, with side by side photographs of a weeping Diana and Kate to highlight the parallels. I want to see the Times call Kate our 'Queen of Hearts' as she nobly and sadly leaves Buckingham Palace with her crying children. I want everyone to remember that Camilla was the evil Other Woman who should never have been queen, as they now gaze upon the Marchioness of Chumbawumba (I literally don't know where she's from) and shriek 'homewrecker'.

Will this happen? Probably not. But I can dream.

HAPPY SANS SWEEP QUEEN DEATH DAY ANNIVERSARY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE!

Excited for the new English King cos I know what happens to odd-numbered Charleses.

Thinking about Edward Elric as the Amestrian Military's specialest little unfireable boy

State alchemists can be fired for underperforming. We know this up front from the likes of Shou Tucker. And this makes a ton of sense from the homunculi's standpoint since the state alchemists are sacrifice candidates, and the homunculi would want to cull the weakest candidates and focus only on cultivating the strongest ones who stand the best chance of opening the portal.

........Then there's Edward. Who's already opened the portal.

There's no need to cultivate him. No gamble taken on whether he's good enough to open the portal. He passed the final test already. Graduated 4 semesters early.

And as such, has a free pass to do Absolute Fuck All.

And I'm imagining how funny this is from like an outside perspective.

Some newish state alchemist who'd only ever read up on the stories of Edward Elric, ready and excited to start their career of being paid handsomely with endless freedom to research and travel and do anything they want in the pursuit of science... surprised and confused to find themselves put on probation their first month for things like "ignoring orders." Which is, as best they had thought, a famous Edward Elric pastime.

Roy showing a slight bit of stress about his yearly state alchemist report, and Ed just snorting and rolling his eyes at Roy because every year HE just hastily does his on the train ride over (canon in the manga, a travesty it was left out of the anime) and it gets rubber stamped. Ed not realizing that other alchemists' reports get genuinely scrutinized and torn apart while Ed is free to turn in whatever absolute bullshit he thinks of 36 hours ahead of time. One year his report was about whether alchemy could be done via dance (conclusion: no it can't) and no one cared. Roy WANTS to tell Ed there's some kind of unknown favoritism around Ed making him literally bullet-proof but Roy has no way to phrase this that doesn't sound like he's just in denial and mad at how good Ed's train-reports are.

Guy from the Internal Amestrian Affairs sector who's responsible for auditing other internal military personel for any suspicious activity hitting about 1 million red flags for Edward Elric, issuing a STRONG and URGENT recommendation to suspend the alchemist pending further investigation into things like "literal bunk-buddies with two members of the Xingese royalty (enemy nation)" and "spent $10,000,000 of his stipend on a librarian to make her re-copy (what he seemed to interpret as?) military records in some extremely transparent effort to unearth state secrets (it was a recipe book but he was literally asking her about state secrets)" and "literally has never once obeyed an order, ever, not even once in his career, and is on public record having said 'I do not care about the goals and protections of the Amestrian Military. I am in fact only pursuing my own interests several of which are diametrically opposed to the safety and well-being of the governing body of Amestris'"

The issued recommendation is intercepted before it even reaches its intended desk. President Bradley himself has taken issue with it and denies it before a single set of eyes has seen it. The President's veto stamp is a terrifying hammer, used rarely, and it is now sitting on the auditor's desk.

The auditor sleeps with one eye open from then on out.